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JFK Assassination System
Identification Form

Agency Information

HSCA
180-10117-10245

NUMBERED FILES
004062

Document Information

HSCA

11/25/1977
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BOLDEN, ABRAHAM
USSS; STAFF
FOSTER, WILLIAM

OUTSIDE CONTACT REPORT
Unclassified

Open in Full

Redact

08/14/1993

- HSCA outside contact report. Box 86.

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Date:

10/1/201

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~ DATE-11/25/77 TIME
IT. “Taentifying ‘Information:
"Name Mr. William Foster ; . Telephone

Address Federal Probation Office, Northern District. Ill.

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CII. - Summary of Contact: |

In-re:

Former. S$ BM ent. Abraham Bolden DOB _1 19 35;
“Security No. 330-28-2266. A trace of Abraham Bolden's prison
record was developed from a newspaper article found in the
° LBJ: Library which mentioned initial incarceration in Spring-_
field; Mo. Mr. Bolden was transferred from Springfield to: _
Maxwell riela Federal Prison Cam (Montgomer Alabama and was
placed on parole in September of 1959. Maxwell retained no
records except for an indication that at some time Bolden:
". §tated that he had had "a residence in Chicago." This lead
-. ‘suggested that an inquiry be made to the Federal Probation. __
service for the Chicago area. . . | |

... Coincidentally, Mr. Foster was the probation officer who _

personally supervised Mr. Balden while Bolden was on probation,
. (cont.) 7 ,

III. | Recommended Follow-up (if any):

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Foster remarked that the Bolden case was unigue in his
experience because of the nondisclosure by authorities
of information that is automatically released to the
probation officer in a given case.

Specifically, in every other case which Mr. Foster
has processed, the prosecutor gave the probation officer
a "version," i.e., a recital of fact about the crime and
the circumstances surrounding it. Only in cases where an
undercover informant is under parole supervision is the
name of the informant withheld, but even then a version is
always presented despite the witholding of the name. In
Bolden's case, the prosecutor: gave ‘the probation officer
only the indictment. Bolden's prosecutor was named Richard
T. Sykes.

Mr. Foster's statement about Mr. Bolden's record while
under parole supervision was that Mr. Bolden violated parole
by talking to the media in order to convey his information’
that the Secret Service knew about the assassination three
oer four weeks before Dallas. “However, for reasons which
were not disclosed either to Mr. Foster or on the record
Mr. Bolden's parole status was not revoked. Foster recounted
that his records show that Bolden's statement was published
‘ ; in the April 12, 1970 Chicago Sun-Times.

Mr. Foster:also set forth certain materials about Mr.
Bolden's prosecution and conviction, supplying enough detail
to make clear that at least one of the witnesses upon whose
testimony the conviction was based subsequently recanted his

testimony. . The recantation, however, did not enable Bolden

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to overturn his conviction.

Mr. Foster then provided the following information
about Mr. Bolden and the name and addresses of Bolden's
relatives. The validity of the information is not

confirmed for the period after 1972.

past employer of Mr. Bolden: National Lead Company
: 1800 S. Peoria Street
Chicago, Illinois

address for Bolden: 7632 S. Sangomon
Chicago, Illinois
Phone: 488-4822

residents at that address: Barbara:Bolden (wife)
Alvia Bolden (daughter)
Abraham Bolden, Jr. (son)
Darren Bolden (son)

Father’s address: Daniel Bolden, Sr.
431 Pfeiffer Road
East St. Louis, Illinois

Mother's address: Ophelia Bolden
: 325 N. 26th Street
East St. Louis, Illinois

brother: Daniel Bolden, Jr..
2128 Kimball Avenue
North Chicago (or Chicago). IL.
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brother: Benjamin Bolden
(resides with father)

sister: . Cecelia Griffin
92 Sangomon Street
Chicago, Illinois

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sister: Eara Dixon
. , 3317 Bond Street
East St. Louis, Illinois

sister: Faye Bolden
(resides with mother)

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